XSCALE in the Real World

Abstract: XSCALE covers Business Agility, Product Management and DevOps. It emphasizes pulling the enterprise into the culture rather than pushing culture into the enterprise, descaling rather than scaling, and business agility first, not agile in IT first. It is parsimonious, combining readily with team level and enterprise agile frameworks while also working as standalone. XSCALE practices derive from many sources: Hiawatha’s Great Law of Peace, Rikyu’s Mu Hin Shu, Goldratt’s Throughput Accounting, Holmgren’s Permaculture, Stack’s Open Book Management, and Beck’s Extreme Programming. Its principles target the enterprise first, only introducing Agile in IT as a means to this end.

 

Key Takeaways:

Participants will gain a clear understanding of

1. How to generate autonomy and alignment in traditional siloed command and control organizations.
2. The difference between scaling and descaling; simple descaling metrics and practices.
3.  Free & Open Source Agility – how “Mu Hin Shu” subverts Shu Ha Ri.
4. How YAGNI generates quicker, cheaper, simpler, safer delivery and change programs.
5. Throughput accounting, open-book management, 3D-Kanban, Leadership-as-a-Service